Class of 2029 Acceptance Rates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Liberty University 99%

1% had their credit card rejected...but they still count the application.

+1. Liberty U—. You pay ( or take out loans— here, we’ll help) you play.

Did you know Liberty was the largest user of federal student loan money in the US (at least as of 2-3 years ago)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No surprise UVA being the least selective of them all. It’s not in the same league.

From Dean J's blog, this year's cycle:

Overall Admission Statistics
Total applications: 64,463 (58,995 last year)
Total VA applications: 17,608 (16,455)
Total OOS applications: 46,855 (42,540)

Overall VA acceptance rate: 23% (25.5%)
Overall OOS acceptance rate: 12.5% (13%)

So, if 2/3 of the class is in state (it is), acceptance rate is about 19% (maybe a bit lower b/c OOS is lower yield). Which is great. And I would accept that in state applicant self select because they have a decent idea if they are competitive. But OP is still full of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC ED acceptance rate was reported to be 33%. 60%+ of the class was filled early.

BC and several others are great schools, but kids worried about acceptance rate as the gauge of prestige should look a level deeper, including CDS data. GPA ranges. Class rank distribution. ED/RD. % submitting scores.

They will find some of the ‘most popular’ schools have similar or worse academic profiles than others with far fewer applicants.

+1. Bates is the one that stuck with from DD’s year (2022 HS grad). Low admit rate. But above 50% admit rate in ED, and filled about 80% of their class from ED. Then uber-low RD rate, because they had like 8 seats left for all of RD. I mean… come on. I believe in love the kids that love you, love the school that loves you back. But that’s ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

|Caltech|\~2.3%| required
|Stanford|\~3.9%| required
|Harvard|\~4.2%| required
|Columbia|4.3%| TO
|Duke|4.5%| TO
|MIT|4.5%| required
|Princeton|\~4.5%| TO
|Yale|4.6%| required
|UPenn|\~4.9%| required
|Vanderbilt|\~5.6%| TO
|Brown|5.7%| required
|Dartmouth|6%| required
|Johns Hopkins|\~6%| required
|Bowdoin|\~6.8%| TO
|Northwestern|7%| TO
|Pomona|\~7.2%| TO
|Amherst|7.4%| TO
|Swarthmore|7.4%| TO
|NYU|7.7%| TO
|Rice|7.8%| TO
|Cornell|\~8.4%| TO
|Williams|8.5%| TO
|UCLA|\~8.6%| TO
|Notre Dame|9%| TO
|Claremont McKenna|\~9.4%| TO
|USC|10.4%| TO
|Berkeley|\~10.5%| TO
|Tufts|10.5%| TO
|CMU|\~11%| TO
|Georgetown|12.2%| required
|Harvey Mudd|\~12.3%| TO
|WashU|\~12.5%| TO
|Boston College|12.6%| TO
|Georgia Tech|12.7%| required
|Wellesley|13.7%| TO
|Emory|14.9%| TO
|UNC|\~15.1%| TO
|UMich|\~15.2%| TO
|UVA|15.4%| TO

Why do they all publish acceptance rates before the cycle is complete? If they have to take students off of waitlist, the rate will change.

that's not how any of this works

[Anonymous]

I really am not sure what the point of the OP post is....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BC ED acceptance rate was reported to be 33%. 60%+ of the class was filled early.

BC and several others are great schools, but kids worried about acceptance rate as the gauge of prestige should look a level deeper, including CDS data. GPA ranges. Class rank distribution. ED/RD. % submitting scores.

They will find some of the ‘most popular’ schools have similar or worse academic profiles than others with far fewer applicants.

+1. Bates is the one that stuck with from DD’s year (2022 HS grad). Low admit rate. But above 50% admit rate in ED, and filled about 80% of their class from ED. Then uber-low RD rate, because they had like 8 seats left for all of RD. I mean… come on. I believe in love the kids that love you, love the school that loves you back. But that’s ridiculous.

Colby and Midd are the same, admit up to 80% of their classes ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

|Caltech|\~2.3%| required
|Stanford|\~3.9%| required
|Harvard|\~4.2%| required
|Columbia|4.3%| TO
|Duke|4.5%| TO
|MIT|4.5%| required
|Princeton|\~4.5%| TO
|Yale|4.6%| required
|UPenn|\~4.9%| required
|Vanderbilt|\~5.6%| TO
|Brown|5.7%| required
|Dartmouth|6%| required
|Johns Hopkins|\~6%| required
|Bowdoin|\~6.8%| TO
|Northwestern|7%| TO
|Pomona|\~7.2%| TO
|Amherst|7.4%| TO
|Swarthmore|7.4%| TO
|NYU|7.7%| TO
|Rice|7.8%| TO
|Cornell|\~8.4%| TO
|Williams|8.5%| TO
|UCLA|\~8.6%| TO
|Notre Dame|9%| TO
|Claremont McKenna|\~9.4%| TO
|USC|10.4%| TO
|Berkeley|\~10.5%| TO
|Tufts|10.5%| TO
|CMU|\~11%| TO
|Georgetown|12.2%| required
|Harvey Mudd|\~12.3%| TO
|WashU|\~12.5%| TO
|Boston College|12.6%| TO
|Georgia Tech|12.7%| required
|Wellesley|13.7%| TO
|Emory|14.9%| TO
|UNC|\~15.1%| TO
|UMich|\~15.2%| TO
|UVA|15.4%| TO

Why do they all publish acceptance rates before the cycle is complete? If they have to take students off of waitlist, the rate will change.

yes, especially at the tiny schools like small LACs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our private, NYU takes huge numbers of middle-of-the-class students ED. Cornell does not.

And I was proud of my DC for being accepted to Stern ... which now seems like an easy admit!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our private, NYU takes huge numbers of middle-of-the-class students ED. Cornell does not.

And I was proud of my DC for being accepted to Stern ... which now seems like an easy admit!

Stern is not an easy admit. But ED is definitely beneficial at NYU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our private, NYU takes huge numbers of middle-of-the-class students ED. Cornell does not.

And I was proud of my DC for being accepted to Stern ... which now seems like an easy admit!

Stern is not an easy admit. But ED is definitely beneficial at NYU

Totally agree with ED 1, ED 2 not so much - filled with Wharton rejects

[Anonymous]

Nyu is very weird it definitely prefers Ed1/Ed2. Not sure if many people get into stern (nyc) as original Rd applicants non deferred. DS was rejected

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No surprise UVA being the least selective of them all. It’s not in the same league.

From Dean J's blog, this year's cycle:

Overall Admission Statistics
Total applications: 64,463 (58,995 last year)
Total VA applications: 17,608 (16,455)
Total OOS applications: 46,855 (42,540)

Overall VA acceptance rate: 23% (25.5%)
Overall OOS acceptance rate: 12.5% (13%)

So, if 2/3 of the class is in state (it is), acceptance rate is about 19% (maybe a bit lower b/c OOS is lower yield). Which is great. And I would accept that in state applicant self select because they have a decent idea if they are competitive. But OP is still full of it.

Lol what kind of voodoo math is this? OP had the right acceptance rate for UVA. DeanJ's published numbers imply 4050 in state acceptances and 5859 oos acceptances. This nets to 9909 total acceptances out of 64463 apps or 15.37%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No surprise UVA being the least selective of them all. It’s not in the same league.

From Dean J's blog, this year's cycle:

Overall Admission Statistics
Total applications: 64,463 (58,995 last year)
Total VA applications: 17,608 (16,455)
Total OOS applications: 46,855 (42,540)

Overall VA acceptance rate: 23% (25.5%)
Overall OOS acceptance rate: 12.5% (13%)

So, if 2/3 of the class is in state (it is), acceptance rate is about 19% (maybe a bit lower b/c OOS is lower yield). Which is great. And I would accept that in state applicant self select because they have a decent idea if they are competitive. But OP is still full of it.

Lol what kind of voodoo math is this? OP had the right acceptance rate for UVA. DeanJ's published numbers imply 4050 in state acceptances and 5859 oos acceptances. This nets to 9909 total acceptances out of 64463 apps or 15.37%.

It’s back of the napkin math that assumed a much higher OOS yield: 2/3 of the class is instate state, so (23*2 +12.5)/3=19.5% acceptance, adjust downward a point or two for higher in state yield. Aka math that had no idea UVA OOS yield was so low— those numbers put the OOS yield at 22-23% (1/3 of an entering class of 3970 is 1310, 1310/5859 is 22.3% expected yield). I would have expected UVA to yield twice that, even OOS. Guess kids who get in OOS really do have better offers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our private, NYU takes huge numbers of middle-of-the-class students ED. Cornell does not.

And I was proud of my DC for being accepted to Stern ... which now seems like an easy admit!

Stern is not an easy admit. But ED is definitely beneficial at NYU

Stern and Tisch are surely difficult admits but the original point was that NYU having a lower acceptance rate than Cornell is...deceptive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYU with a lower acceptance rate than Cornell is laughable. Anyone who has ever been through this process knows how rigged these numbers are.

NYU doesn't count a full quarter of the incoming class in the reported stats.

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Cornell also has guaranteed 2nd year transfer program and they do not count.
This is common in many many schools.

I'm not aware of any other ivy that offers this or most other elite privates. USC doesnt count since they aren't a comparable private.